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United States' Secretary of State Antony Blinken, left, Australian Minister for Foreign Affairs, Marise Payne, second left, Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison, center, India's Minister of External Affairs S. Jaishankar and Japanese Minister for Foreign Affairs Yoshimasa Hayashi, right, meet in Melbourne, Friday, Feb. 11, as part of Quad meetings. The four nations form the so-called "Quad," a bloc of Indo-Pacific democracies that was created to counter China's regional influence.